Once
you become a member you can join a local or virtual user group, take
advantage of our online education and certification resources as well as
our networking and collaboration tools. Other benefits
include; Pulse Conference Discounts codes; 40% Discount on Tivoli books
from IBM Press, Free certification testing at local user group meetings
and much more! Membership is free. Click here to join today

Can
you manage thousands of endpoints on multiple platforms from the same console?
Do you know exactly what assets you have at all times, understand who, how and
why are people using them? Can you distribute software and fixes to each of
them, maintain control and compliance reports for roaming equipment while at
the same time reduce the amount of energy your endpoints consume?

On February 1st, IBM announced the availability of
the new, IBM Tivoli Endpoint
Manager, for managing and securing physical and virtual endpoints.Built on BigFix technology, Tivoli Endpoint Manager
combines endpoint and security management into a single solution that
enables companies to see and manage virtually all endpoints — servers,
desktops, roaming laptops, and specialized equipment such as point-of-sale
devices, ATMs and self-service kiosks.

Value to Customers: Continuous Visibility and Control for
all Endpoints

IT organizations are constantly seeking ways to manage
complexity and reduce costs, while providing services to end users that
increase productivity and business efficiencies.IBM
Tivoli Endpoint Manager, built on BigFix technology, contributes to those
goals – by allowing clients to consolidate previously disparate functions and
processes in endpoint management and security to maximize efficiencies, reduce
risk and costs and provide quality services to end users no matter how
distributed or complex the environment.

Tivoli Endpoint Manager delivers value from the smallest of
companies to the very largest organizations.A single Tivoli Endpoint Manager management server is capable of
managing up to 250,000 endpoints.The
solution can be installed in a matter of hours, and provides customers with a fast
ROI.

And if you want to talk directly to our customers,
visit us at Pulse.
Come see for yourself how companies of all sizes are
leveraging Tivoli Endpoint Manager, built on BigFix technology to achieve unparalleled visibility,
control and automation.

Social networking opportunities:

Take a moment to share your experiences, knowledge and
questions around endpoint management

2010 has been an outstanding year for the Global Tivoli User Community with over 4,000 clients/ business partners attending 206 user group meetings around the world! Never before has our user community been so strong with over 25,000 on-line members and 3,500 of those members creating public profiles for greater online networking.

Our fist big event of 2011 will be Pulse, as the User Community is going to be at Pulse in the User Community Networking Area.Question for you: Will you be attending IBM's Premier Service Management conference of the year--Pulse 2011? Check out this video on Pulse.

Submitted by: Michelle Varner.A business man is making a sales call to demonstrate the value add that Tivoli products bring to a business, but has also brought along a few friends to demonstrate how those products rock.

Submitted by: Nathan Cable. This 10 minute how-to video will show you how to install the TSM backup client on a RedHat Enterprise Linux server, complete with GUI and service-based scheduler. Targeted at TSM admins who may not have extensive Linux experience, or Linux admins new to TSM.

Take a few moments to view the videos and vote for your favorite. To vote you'll need to be a member of the Global Tivoli User Community. If you are not a member already, free membership is only 2 minutes away from your ability to vote for your favorite. Become a member today by clicking here.

Voting privileges are available until November 16th. Winners will be announced on November 23, 2010.

The grand prize winner will receive an iPad so be apart of history and vote today!

Do you have questions on IBM Tivoli Products?Get an answer via the Ask the Expert Online Jam event.

Mark the date: Tuesday November 9, 2010

69+ IBM Tivoli and Maximo Experts, many from development and support will be available via the "Ask the Expert Online Jam" session this 12+ hour event.NEW for this session: the question tool will be available for submitting questions to the experts starting at 11pm ET on Monday, November 8th, 2010 (answers will be inputed into the tool after 8AM ET on Tuesday, November 9)

The November 9th Ask the Experts Online Jam will included the following products:IBM Tivoli Monitoring (ITM), Tivoli Asset Management for IT, All IBM Maximo Asset Management products - Enterprise Asset, Change and Configuration Management Database (CCMDB) , NetView for z/OS, OMEGAMON, Service Management & Cloud, Tivoli Access Manager (TAM), Tivoli Access Manager Enterprise Single Sign On (TAM ESSO), Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager (TADDM), Tivoli Identity Manager (TIM), Tivoli Netcool Impact, Tivoli Netcool Performance Manager and Flow Analyzer, Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus , Tivoli Network Manager and Net View/d, Tivoli Productivity Center, Tivoli Provisioning Manager, Tivoli Service Request Manager (TSRM) , Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM), , Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) FastBack,Tivoli System Automation, Tivoli Workload Scheduler(TWS). Here's how it works in brief:Step 1: You have a question - usually technical; Step 2: You will find the expert that is best suited to answer the question by browsing for an expert by pre-defined category and product specific; Step 3: You will fill in a field on the "Ask the Experts online Jam" web application to submit the question.Step 4: You will receive an email answer to your question and the Ask the Expert JAM web application is updated for other members to see.

To participate in this online jam session you must be a registered member of the TUC. Please register now!

To accommodate the Australian, Indian and Europena time zones the ATE tool will open up 9 hours early. However, the ATE Experts will not begin answering question until 8AM Eastern USA time. You will need to allow for up to 12 hours to begin receiving answers to your questions.

How exciting to see how IBM's techology is making it's way into
personal usage of cars. It's also great to see how GM is invovled
with the Maximo Manufacturing User Group. Keep up the great work
user groups!

...the 100+ men and woman who lead our various IBM Tivoli User Groups.

Who is your Hero?

A friend, co-worker, neighbor, service people or a family member?

Heroes are ordinary people who have accomplished extraordinary things in life and in some way have touched your life.

The dedication and support of these people who volunteer their time and energy for ultimately the greater good of the product they work with on a daily basis is incredible.

Have you ever talked to or watch a leader facilitate a user group meeting? They do it all: organize agendas, communicate to the members, attain speakers, answer questions, motivate the membership/keep the drum beat going, prepare the meeting rooms, do the post meeting activities, and so much more. So much of these tasks could not be done without their drive and passion.

Picture: The Global Tivoli User Group (GTUG) council at Pulse 2010

These user group leaders who are ordinary people do accomplish extraordinary things for the user community and so TODAY I, as the Global Tivoli User Community Manager, salute you for all of your hard work and service to keep the user community one of the strongest user communities IBM software has the privileged of supporting.